St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-04-23
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IARls, April 22.-The arrest of the
french commssary Schnabels, of Pagpv
Sur-Moselle by the German police after he
had been decoyed over the frontier. is re-
sarded as serious matter in official circles.
Inc lntransigeant, of which Henri Roche
Tort Is editor. is the only paper that is rabid
III us comments on the affair. The other
papers are moderate in their reference to if.
Later dispatches confirm the statement that
NJ. ociliiapels was arrested on French ter
ritorS. NJ Flourens will await the result
Oh minute inquiry on the spot before
DEMANDING PREPARATION
from Germany for the arrest. The ner-
iormance OF Wagner's opera. ''Lohengrin, )"
when was to have taken place at the Eden
theater III Paris tomorrow, has been post
pohed owing to the feeling that has been
aroused by the frontier occurrence. M.
oaViet, minister OF justice, has sent the
piocufateur general to assist the procura-
tetr at Nancy in making an investigation
iillo tue arrest OF NJ. Schnabels, and to re-
port the facts in the case. The project of
Meurthe El-MoselIe. the Department in
which Pagny-Sur-M is situated has
arrived here for the purpose of conferring
with Premier Goblet in regard to the ar
rest. The French papers are unanimous in
the statement that NJ. Schnabels was ar
rested on French soil by the German officers
VINO TOOK him into custody. The TEMPS
publishes dispatch from Strasburg stating
mat the German officials suspected NJ.
ochilapels or having relations with persons
Ill Germany for the purpose of
OBTAINING INFORN ALTON
concerning the military measures being
taken around Metz. for the use of the
French military officials. The authorities
OF the foreign office believe that the Ger
man government will make an explanation
o! the affair that will calm the present in
dlgnatlon. A Berlin dispatch saws the ar
rest OF Schnabels is the outcome of all ordi-
nary judicial proceeding. The Judge who
ordered the arrest did SO, it is stated. on
evidence duplicating him in an attempt to
suovert the allegiance of Alsatians to Ger
many. Inc German authorities consider
the fact OF his being a foreigner does not
exempt Schnabels from punishment. They
say the moment he was caught on German
territory he was under the Jurisdiction of
the German courts. The Nachuchten saws
that Schnabels is strongly suspectnd of be-
ing French spy and that an INQUIRY will
prove that the German authorities have
been duly vgilant. The German accounts
OF the affair ignore the French assertion
that Schnabels was enticed into German
territory. NJ. Deroulede in an interview
yesterday, gave the apathy and timdityl
which the government had shown in deal
ing with Germany. as the reason for his re-
signing the presidency of the Patriotic
league.
Inc inquiry in the matter of the arrest of
ochnaoels has not yet shown whether he
was arrested on French or German terri
tory. On being examined Sehnabels said
ne protested against the violation of French
territory by Germans He declared he was
unaware of the cause of his arresr